A Wired Withdrawal Ahead?
Looking at an E-Mail Nation

By

Vivienne Walt Special to The Wall Street Journal Interactive Edition

Updated Feb. 22, 1997 8:24 a.m. ET

C onsidering the vilification America Online has attracted this past month, one might think the company had committed grand larceny, a mammoth pyramid scam perhaps. In fact, the greatest crime it might be guilty of is pretending to be an Internet company by offering a flat-rate plan that was sure to seriously strain its system.

Or perhaps it's the company's strange failure to realize how seriously Americans take their latest...